(n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
(n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.
(n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower.
(n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
(n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated.
(v. t.) To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat.
(v. t.) To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube.
(v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.
(v. t.) To utter by bellowing.
(v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The males had characteristic manifestations of the Martin-Bell syndrome.
(2) The bell-shaped dose-response curves observed after irradiation with either X rays or neutrons are explained by assuming simultaneous initial transforming events and cell inactivation with the data for cell inactivation at higher doses being in agreement with data reported for other strains of mice.
(3) In 2009, he allowed Imagine to be played on the cathedral bells.
(4) Auditory brain stem potentials (ABP) were recorded in 27 patients with Bell's palsy during the early phase of the disease and 1-3 months later.
(5) Until the bell, 19-year-old Lizzie Armitstead figured strongly in a leading group of 12 that at one point enjoyed a two-minute lead, racing comfortably alongside the Olympic time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong.
(6) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
(7) At low concentrations of gelactin, the gelatin of actin exhibits a bell-shaped dependency on free calcium ion concentration, being stimulated between pCa 8 and 6 and inhibited at pCa below 5.5, while at high gelactin concentrations the calcium sensitivity of actin gelation is apparently abolished.
(8) For an "FM specialized" cell, the response pattern to each of the parameters was either monotonic or bell-shaped.
(9) On the other hand they showed bell-shaped promotive effects on PRL-ovarian receptor binding, the maximal effects being observed at 10-20 mM.
(10) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
(11) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
(12) An 18-year-old mentally retarded male with the Martin-Bell syndrome was fragile X positive.
(13) A spokesman for the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, which represents Rajapaksa, denied that he had cancelled his trip to the UK last month becuse of fears that he might face an arrest warrant.
(14) Oestrous and dioestrous rats were observed during the initial 2 min of open-field exposure, and after a loud bell had sounded.
(15) DynaTAC became the phone of choice for fictional psychopaths, including Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman and Saved by the Bell's Zack Morris.
(16) When Question Time was moved to an earlier 9pm slot in May during the MPs' expenses scandal, a panel including Martin Bell, Ben Bradshaw and William Hague had 3.7 million viewers and a 17% share.
(17) At a higher concentration (20 microM), effects of RP 62719 on inotropy and lusitropy were less marked, thus accounting for the bell-shaped form of the dose-response curve.
(18) Had the Bell and Loop criteria been used to decide which patients had skull radiography, 35% (all in children) of the fractures would have gone undetected.
(19) At late cap stage and at early bell stage receptors are not present at inner enamel epithelium level but they can be detectable in the mesenchyma of dental papilla and in some cells of the follicle.
(20) They found her and rang the emergency bell,” she said.
Boll
Definition:
(n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
(n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
(v. i.) To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The % by weight content of leaf-like, stem, boll, seed, and weed materials sifted (3360 mum greater than particle size greater than or equal to 595 mum) from visible wastes of the Shirley Analyzer was determined for a lint sample taken after ginning but before cleaning and for a second lint sample taken after one stage of saw-type cleaning.
(2) There was no significant difference in the numbers of contaminated bolls between the excised and field-matured treatments.
(3) These results were discussed in the context of the species-specific defense reaction (SSDR) avoidance theory of Bolles.
(4) But I am confident that we as a city can shape the coexistence of different cultures we have here now.” “We have to bring the city into the camps,” says refugee coordinator Hadjiandreou-Boll.
(5) Expression of heat shock proteins (hsp) in the BRL-AG-3C cell line from the cotton boll weevil was examined.
(6) Muraschi, Thelma F. (Division of Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany), John K. Miller, Victor N. Tompkins, and Dorothy M. Bolles.
(7) A heterogeneous group of 100 subjects were selected from the neuropsychological testing case records published by Golden, Osmon, Moses, and Berg in 1981, Boll (undated), and Reitan (undated).
(8) All of the bolls inoculated through the carpel wall had A. flavus in the seed, but only 11% of the stem and peduncle sections were infected, indicating that the fungus does not readily grow downward from the boll into the supporting stem or peduncle.
(9) Alix Bolle of the European association Energy Cities says many Scandinavian and German cities do well on energy not only because they have highly efficient district heating and cooling systems, but because powers to harness and manage energy are decentralised.
(10) Boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) eggs contain two yolk proteins, YP47 and YP160.
(11) The seed and stem and peduncle sections of each boll were surface-sterilized, plated on agar media and observed for A. flavus.
(12) Raw cotton from 4 machine picked varieties and 2 machine stripped varieties is examined by stereomicroscope and bright-field microscopy for presence of plant trash(bract, leaf, stem, seed, boll, and weed fragments-size range 841-2000mum) that gives rise to cotton dust during yarn manufacturing operations.
(13) The FokI method of gene synthesis [Mandecki and Bolling, Gene 68 (1988) 101-107] was used to assemble the plasmid from 30 oligodeoxyribonucleotides.
(14) The fungus was present in 20 to 58% of the immature bolls harvested 25 or 35 days after anthesis.
(15) Bolles tells us he is playing at the Echo in a few minutes with his band The Fancy Space People.
(16) Whole plants, assayed under conditions of high insect pressure with Heliothis zea (cotton bollworm) showed effective square and boll protection.
(17) Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was used to examine gut, Malpighian tube, fat-body, testes, and ovarioles tissues of the adult cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boh.
(18) The first are called vitellogenins and are found in frog, chicken, nematode, fish, and some insects such as the boll weevil.
(19) Bolls developing from early-season flowers had significantly higher percentages of A. flavus-infected seed than did bolls from flowers formed later in the season.
(20) The esterases of the cotton boll weevil were separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis into four major regions.